Matthews Chips Up
On a flop that read , the small and big blinds checked to Matthews who led out for 800.
The opponent in the hijack position called, the blinds got out of the way and it was heads-up to the turn of the .
Matthews reached over to his stack to put out a bet, but the hijack couldn't get the rest of his chips in fast enough. Matthews snap-called.
Matthews:
Opponent:
The river hit both players and the opponent thought he had it with Broadway, shouting "Yes!" and sat back down.
"Full book mate," Matthews said. The opponent looked at Matthews' hand, then sheepishly stood up again before walking away.
Matthews is now up to 26,000 in chips.